Hi guys, long-time lurker here. I am in the middle of writing a non-fiction book. I wrote my first draft over the last few months, which came in right about 32k words. I'm aiming for 70-75k words, so the first draft could be considered a very rough draft or an extremely detailed outline. I'm going back and expanding and expounding during the second draft to meet that goal. I originally wanted to wait until I had a finished mms to start querying so I could say "shit's done yo, wanna see the full?" in the query letter. Of course, I'm impatient, as humans and writers are wont to be, and I want to start querying now, as I predict I won't finish the second draft until the end of October.
Sooo, after saying all that, I guess my question is how would I query at this point? I know the usual query for a non-fic is to offer a proposal, but since I'm about halfway there at this point, do I still offer the proposal? I could offer to send them the ~35k I have right now, but a lot of it needs some TLC before it's seen by anyone besides myself. Do I tell them in the query I'm halfway there but they can only see a proposal? Should I just sit on my hands until the second draft is finished and query the full? Advice by all would be appreciated.
Danke.
Sooo, after saying all that, I guess my question is how would I query at this point? I know the usual query for a non-fic is to offer a proposal, but since I'm about halfway there at this point, do I still offer the proposal? I could offer to send them the ~35k I have right now, but a lot of it needs some TLC before it's seen by anyone besides myself. Do I tell them in the query I'm halfway there but they can only see a proposal? Should I just sit on my hands until the second draft is finished and query the full? Advice by all would be appreciated.
Danke.
